Call of Duty 4 trailer

720p HD
http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov

480p SD
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"AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 720p HD
> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>
> 480p SD
> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>
> right-click, save as
>

Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six - only
time will tell...

"AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 720p HD
> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>
> 480p SD
> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>
> right-click, save as

Looks good.
When I first heard they were moving away from the WW2 theme I was
disappointed, but I think now I am sick of French and German villages and
bringing it more to the present day will allow for more exotic locations and
more variation.

It looks lovely, but I think I'll give it a miss.

Nod


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"Alan" <aye@right.com> wrote in message
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> "AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> 720p HD
>> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>>


>> 480p SD
>> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>>
>> right-click, save as
>>
>
> Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six - only
> time will tell...


You say that like it's a bad thing.
GRAW and RS are very popular games on LIVE. More popular then COD.
Maybe this is what Activision needs to move the series forward.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I applaud any developer that tries to move a series in a new direction.
I know I get bored playing the same damn game over with every new
installment.

boodybandit wrote:
> "Alan" <aye@right.com> wrote in message
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>> "AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1177743932.695086.10770@n59g2000hsh.googlegro ups.com...
>>>
>>> 720p HD
>>> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>>>
>
>
>>> 480p SD
>>> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>>>
>>> right-click, save as
>>>
>>
>> Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six -
>> only time will tell...
>
>
> You say that like it's a bad thing.
> GRAW and RS are very popular games on LIVE. More popular then COD.
> Maybe this is what Activision needs to move the series forward.
> Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
>
> I applaud any developer that tries to move a series in a new
> direction. I know I get bored playing the same damn game over with
> every new installment.

I do too and perhaps it's time for a change. What I've liked about Call of
Duty is its grittiness. That and atmosphere. World War II locals offer
great potential for adding atmosphere to game play. This is what really set
Gears of War apart. It was gritty and it had a lot of atmospher, you really
felt a war was going on and you were in the middle of it. I think the
seemingly "old European" look and some of the gothic structures added a
great deal to the game. That and the fact, everyone looked as though they
had been in battle, they were battle worn and battle scared.

What I've found objectionable in the more modern warefare type games, GRAW
for example, is they seem to lack the grit and atmosphere of their World War
II counterparts and some of the more fictionalized games such as Gears.

War is a dirty business, it's not clinical and I find some of the combat
games in a modern setting a bit too pristine. From what I can see in the
trailer and this is obviously very early even though it was more "cinema"
than game play, it seems to have the grittiness we've come to expect in Call
of Duty games. Also, given Infinity Ward's record with Call of Duty, I have
reason to hope they will continue to build on their past successes and
traditions.


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>> "AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> 720p HD
>>> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>>>
>
>
>>> 480p SD
>>> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>>>
>>> right-click, save as
>>>
>>
>> Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six - only
>> time will tell...
>
>
> You say that like it's a bad thing.
> GRAW and RS are very popular games on LIVE. More popular then COD.
> Maybe this is what Activision needs to move the series forward.
> Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

This is not what they needed to do to move the series forward. They are
simply going from one "safe" setting to another and copying GRAW, R6 and BF.
There are tons of things they could have done to "move the series forward"
that would have been breaking new ground for shooters, like setting it in
the Pacific during WW II (MOH: Rising Sun was crap) or going to Korea or
Vietnam. The Korean war has never been done before on consoles and Vietnam
has been done twice, neither of the quality that COD has brought to previous
games. Instead Activision decided people wanted modern shooters and gave
them one. The video game industry is an industry largely of copycats and COD
4 is going with the flow. Now we have a glut of modern shooters and some
people will be saying the same things about modern shooters in a year or two
that they said about WW II shooters.

Also, why did they have to make this a fictional war? I have a problem with
video game companies refusing to push the envelope even a little bit.
Instead of GRAW, Splinter Cell or R6 going to Iraq or Afghanistan, they're
always set in some "future" conflict that doesn't exist. Six years after
September 11 we have ONE game that features Al Qaeda as the enemy, that
stupid PS2 game where you fought Osama kung-fu style at the end. COD could
have pushed the envelope there and actually done something totally new even
as a modern shooter but chose not to.

This isn't moving the series or gaming forward, it's moving it laterally.
Hell, the only game that might be doing something to move gaming forward is
that WW II shooter due to be released in 2008 where the background changes
as you liberate the town as a fighter in the French resistence. Hopefully
that might stimulate developers to use the surroundings and background in
their games in new ways.

Chris wrote:
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>>> "AirRaid" <airraid22@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> 720p HD
>>>> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>> 480p SD
>>>> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>>>>
>>>> right-click, save as
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks ok, but all they've done is turned COD into GRAW/Rainbox Six
>>> - only time will tell...
>>
>>
>> You say that like it's a bad thing.
>> GRAW and RS are very popular games on LIVE. More popular then COD.
>> Maybe this is what Activision needs to move the series forward.
>> Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
>
> This is not what they needed to do to move the series forward. They
> are simply going from one "safe" setting to another and copying GRAW,
> R6 and BF. There are tons of things they could have done to "move the
> series forward" that would have been breaking new ground for
> shooters, like setting it in the Pacific during WW II (MOH: Rising
> Sun was crap) or going to Korea or Vietnam. The Korean war has never
> been done before on consoles and Vietnam has been done twice, neither
> of the quality that COD has brought to previous games. Instead
> Activision decided people wanted modern shooters and gave them one.
> The video game industry is an industry largely of copycats and COD 4
> is going with the flow. Now we have a glut of modern shooters and
> some people will be saying the same things about modern shooters in a
> year or two that they said about WW II shooters.
> Also, why did they have to make this a fictional war? I have a
> problem with video game companies refusing to push the envelope even
> a little bit. Instead of GRAW, Splinter Cell or R6 going to Iraq or
> Afghanistan, they're always set in some "future" conflict that
> doesn't exist. Six years after September 11 we have ONE game that
> features Al Qaeda as the enemy, that stupid PS2 game where you fought
> Osama kung-fu style at the end. COD could have pushed the envelope
> there and actually done something totally new even as a modern
> shooter but chose not to.
> This isn't moving the series or gaming forward, it's moving it
> laterally. Hell, the only game that might be doing something to move
> gaming forward is that WW II shooter due to be released in 2008 where
> the background changes as you liberate the town as a fighter in the
> French resistence. Hopefully that might stimulate developers to use
> the surroundings and background in their games in new ways.

The problem is, we fought to a standstill in Korea, for me anyway, sandbags
a bit of the interest in the game. Vietnam was morally ambiguous. We
already have too many people trying to rewrite history on that one. There
was no ambiguity about WWII which is one of the reasons why its such great
fodder for a game.

While I have mixed emoutions but no real objections to moving into a more
modern battlefield, even a fictional battlefield if it's done well, I agree,
WWII still has a lot of great stories and battles to be fought and no one
has really done a good job on the war in the Pacific. I'd certainly like to
see COD move to the Pacific theater.

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AirRaid wrote:
> 720p HD
> http://download.activision.com/callo...t24FPS720p.mov
>
> 480p SD
> http://64.158.29.57/90webStereoFastStart24FPS480p.mov
>
> right-click, save as
>

I hate trailers like that. Too fast and furious to judge much.

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> The problem is, we fought to a standstill in Korea, for me anyway,
> sandbags a bit of the interest in the game. Vietnam was morally ambiguous.

For me, a game set in Afghanistan with mission such as "Defend newly built
girls' school from assault by Taliban unit" would be fairly morally
unambiguous, personally.

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